V. oppose, counteract, run counter to; withstand &c. (resist) 719; control &c. (restrain) 751; hinder &c. 706; antagonize, oppugn, fly in the face of, go dead against, kick against, fall afoul of, run afoul of; set against, pit against; face, confront, cope with; make a stand, make a dead set against; set oneself against, set one's face against; protest against, vote against, raise one's voice against; disfavor, turn one's back upon; set at naught, slap in the face, slam the door in one's face.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

It is often a narrow selfishness in a father which leads him to wish his son a reproduction of himself.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

If it is absurd then it is leadish and nearly set in where there is a tight head.
— from Tender Buttons Objects—Food—Rooms by Gertrude Stein

I'd rather you wouldn't," said Meg, taking a naughty satisfaction in trying her lover's patience and her own power.
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

“Busy as we are from childhood tilling Mother Earth, we peasants have no time to let any nonsense settle in our heads.
— from What Men Live By, and Other Tales by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

[ The States of New England are those situated to the east of the Hudson; they are now six in number: 1, Connecticut; 2, Rhode Island; 3, Massachusetts; 4, Vermont; 5, New Hampshire; 6, Maine.]
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

The materials of experience are no sooner in hand than they are transformed by intelligence, reduced to those permanent presences, those natures and relations, which alone can live in discourse.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

He had given them all a great tea under the big elm in their playground, for which Madam Brown had supplied the biggest cake ever seen in our village; and Tom was really as sorry to leave them as they to lose him, but his sorrow was not unmixed with the pride and excitement of making a new step in life.
— from Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes

As I'm alive, and 'tis a thousand pities that I'm alive at all at all, for shure God Almighty never made sich a misfortunate crather afore nor since; I have had nothing to put in my head since I ran away from my ould masther, Mr. F——, yesterday at noon.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

After a night spent in waking intervals of such thoughts, Margaret found the ordinary morning, and the talk she could not escape, somewhat oppressive.
— from The Daisy Chain, or Aspirations by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

"They are not so important as to undo the whole work of your highness."
— from The Deluge: An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. Vol. 1 (of 2) by Henryk Sienkiewicz

It was a longing that had never been satisfied, and now seemed insatiable.
— from Pelle the Conqueror — Volume 04 by Martin Andersen Nexø

Whoever speaks of a national sense in these savage hordes is either untruthful or ignorant.
— from The Balkan Peninsula by Frank Fox

"She always loved me and never showed it."
— from The Golden Age in Transylvania by Mór Jókai

I expected every wave would have swallowed us up, and that every time the ship fell down, as I thought, [page 7] in the trough or hollow of the sea, we should never rise more; and in this agony of mind I made many vows and resolutions, that if it would please God here to spare my life this one voyage, if ever I got once my foot upon dry land again I would go directly home to my father, and never set it into a ship again while I lived; that I would take his advice, and never run myself into such miseries as these any more.
— from The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1808) by Daniel Defoe

Novatus, A.D. 251, distinguished by some rigid sentiments concerning the reception of those who had lapsed, and the founder of a numerous sect, in his few remaining works quotes the Gospel with the same respect as other Christians did; and concerning his followers, the testimony of Socrates, who wrote about the year 440, is positive, viz.
— from Evidences of Christianity by William Paley

Hem, hem—the first phrase to alter is this: 'I know her enough to feel deep solicitude and anxiety for /your/ happiness if centred in a nature so imperious and vain'—scratch out 'your,' and put 'my.'
— from Ernest Maltravers — Volume 08 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

"When I returned this afternoon to see how Mrs. Colquhoun was progressing, I found that none of my orders had been carried out, and now she is dangerously ill," I said severely.
— from The Heavenly Twins by Sarah Grand

Consequently psychological considerations are not subsidiary incidents, but of essential importance so far as they enable us to trace
— from Studies in Logical Theory by John Dewey